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@jwildeboer Agreed, and a good article too. Very reassuring.

My main issue (and I’m currently in the market for a new car), is that I need to travel long distances frequently, moderately laden, and often in the cold (more frequently in the winter).

I could afford a decent spec EV, but I couldn’t really justify it, and would prefer to have the spare income.

I don’t pay for fuel, so it’s not that, it’s the hours added to journeys charging and the very real risk of being stranded tens (or a hundred in some cases) of miles from help. Some weeks could add 10-15 hours of charging for me, not including those while sleeping.

We trialled one of the new mid range Kias in ‘long range’ configurations, and struggled to get even 50% of the advertised range in December. Obviously that’s down to traffic, load, road conditions, temperature, and the type of miles you’re doing (for me it’s motorway or very rural fast B roads) but it’s still hard to get a good read on advertised range. It also really wasn’t cheap.

I know I’m probably an outlier, but it frustrates me as I’m environmentally conscious otherwise. Don’t drive much except for work, and I do drive a hybrid, and drive economically. I do carry auxiliary fuel tanks as even with a 400-450 mile range, it’s easy to get caught out between the UK and various sites over Europe.

I’m excited for the new battery tech people are working on now, though.

@star the randomness is guaranteed 🤭

@mttaggart make this an incremental game and I’d play it.

*Proceeds to stave off overwhelming ADHD impulse to drop all current projects and learn how to make this happen.*

@mttaggart I forgot the damn partner program.

For each new customer you refer to us, you get a 0.5% probability boost to your favoured outcomes*

For an additional $325k/yr you can get a spotlight announcement and a seat on our board of directors with voting rights.

*Annual quotas apply to maintain participation. Limited to maximum 120% probability per outcome.

@mttaggart Process Pachinko.

Every ‘bucket’ has an outcome. The jackpot just gives you more balls.

We could get some sweet animated dashboards, a Dynatrace integration which will show all green anyway, some sort of SIEM runbook which naturally make things worse, glossy exec reports.

Stick some GenAI in there, so you can ask it to influence outcomes and it be utterly incapable of doing so.

Add in premium modules for rate limiting, a rabbits foot, money paw, four leaf clover, ball credits (not getting the successes you need? Try more requests!)

We can spin up a side hustle which allows betting on business outcomes, which definitely isn’t gambling, but ‘investing’.

Honestly, we’ve just won the cloud. I was so wrong.

The stop using non-deterministic technologies to do tasks requiring deterministic outputs challenge.

Let’s try that.

@swelljoe seemed to grow into their angst, not out of it.

Everyone but Mike and Max forgot how to act.

Also *pan to Will’s neck* got old fast.

I’ve been perpetually frustrated with the latest season of Stranger Things. I have some thoughts, and they’re not good… however, it is a rare specimen that deserves to be studied!

They had this huge budget and comparatively near unlimited resources and spent it all ensuring that they had all of the period accurate props and wardrobe, and then making everything as bad as humanly possible.

Starting from the first scene, CGI where there didn’t need to be any, green screen compositing when straight filming would have been easier (and look better), some of the laziest colour grading I’ve ever clapped eyes on (in lieu of correct lighting in many cases), cheap muzzle flares added in post, badly lit CG models, with low accuracy motion vectors.

And that’s just visually, it’s sonically poor, too. Flat dynamic range, poor stereo separation, dubs lack believable spatial qualities, foley seems to be sourced on Temu.

And then in terms of actual production, the acting is largely fine, but more than one major cast member seems to have forgotten how to act (or got worse in one case). The dialogue is poorly written, lacks emotion, and the pacing is terrible. Eyelines are off, multi-cam shots lack continuity, and it just feels amateurish. Even the plot holes have plot holes, and the consequential story beats get forgotten as quickly as they were made up on the spot.

It’s easy to pick holes in the things we watch, but rarely do we see such so many errors or lack of polish or effort in one place. Truly a thing to behold.

I started to lose interest when S3 started, but the idea was still fun. So much lost potential.